I feel sorry for Haley Stevens. Abdul beat her in the Michigan D primary by attacking her supporter, AIPAC, as representative of a foreign government.
Now it turns out that Abdul is a walking, talking dual citizen of a foreign government, Egypt.
The guy is a con man.
Hockey ice is white because it's painted. Rinks freeze a thin base layer, spray it with white paint, then seal the paint under more ice. The league has done this since the 1940s so fans could follow a black puck. Then someone pointed a projector at it.
It turns out hockey had accidentally built the best movie screen in sports. Matte white paint under a sheet of clear ice diffuses light almost perfectly, and the whole surface is dead flat.
It's also enormous. An NHL rink is 200 feet by 85, about 17,000 square feet. A standard IMAX screen is around 4,000.
A show like this takes roughly a dozen 20,000-lumen projectors hung in the rafters, aimed nearly straight down so the beams don't glare off the ice or bleed into the seats. Software warps and blends all of them into one picture that fits the rink's rounded corners pixel for pixel. The Devils put about $1 million into their rig a decade ago, and arenas across the league copied it.
San Jose was always going to push this furthest. The Sharks have run the most famous entrance in hockey since the 90s, a 17-foot shark head lowered from the rafters with fog pouring out of its mouth and eyes glowing red. For thirty years the players skated out of the tank. Now the whole rink is the tank, and the sharks circling under their skates are just light bouncing off paint that was only ever there to make a puck visible.
So internet girlies are trying to identify the Cornell 7, but they ended up doxxing the wrong guy because they're not actually real detectives. Now he's receiving death threats for something he didn't do.
They're doing about as well as Reddit did during the Boston Bombing.
@yannickmiddle@TaniaSaidWhat New York City's M/WBE initiative
during fiscal year 2025, inckuded agencies awarding 1,118 non-competitive contracts totaling over $363 million to certified minority- and women-owned business enterprises.
I spent many years going to Sharks games in the 2000s and early 2010s. There’s no franchise I’ve seen more games in person than the Sharks. I have not heard a pop like this in a LONG, long time (Vegas game 7 probably). So happy to have this vibe back.
@yannickmiddle@TaniaSaidWhat Government programs to fight racism and address racial discrimination span federal, state, and local levels through civil rights enforcement, policy initiatives, and educational grants… do you want me to get into specifics? I do think the same energy is being put.